Word: isn
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...That isn't the half of it," he returned, with another shudder and the hint of a sob. "Attend, my boy, and you shall hear the whole sad tale of how I have been reduced in the course of half a morning from a young man flushed with the vigor of his bursting prime, to the doddering human wreck you see before you. "It all began at about seven this morning. I was sleeping the sleep of the young and the innocent, as is my custom of a morning, when the phone rang. I got wearily to my feet, staggered...
...Cloud Five about it, but isn't it possible to have your fancy caught for a moment by a man who annually can add $1 million and 3,000 employees to his company, even though his management policy would be downright boring to trustbusters and muckrakers...
Baby Fazed? In Toulouse, France, Louise Blanc, 105, arrived on her first airplane trip, said that her only concern was for the comfort of "her little girl," Lea, 81, who "isn't used to traveling...
...Though she wears bracelets up to here, mink up to her ear, a lady isn't dressed unless her legs are too," trilled an American soprano...
Resting rock-like on the twin foundations of hindsight and inevitability, Road to the Stars is pretty dull entertainment. The future is offered as a fantastic but closed book. The invasion of the cosmos isn't as exciting as Walt Disney or George Pal might make it. More interesting is the account of the early struggles of the late Soviet creator (in 1903) of the multiple-stage rocket, Konstantin Tsiolkovsky, a schoolteacher "as modest as he was great." Half-deaf himself, Tsiolkovsky was able to gain no other ears than those of his young students until the October Revolution...